Man faces multiple identity theft-related charges in Fort St. John

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — Frank Edward Boostrom was sentenced in a local courtroom this week after receiving several charges from incidents in Fort St. John, Charlie Lake and Vancouver.

Boostrom faced charges including personation, identity theft and possession of stolen property at the Fort St. John courthouse.

According to Dan McLaughlin with the BC Prosecution Service, Boostrom was charged with personation on July 22nd, 2023, in Vancouver. 

Personation means to assume someone else’s identity with the intention of deceiving others.

He pled guilty and, on November 7th, 2023, was sentenced to 43 days in jail with two years of probation to follow.

McLaughlin says Boostrom spent 17 days in custody and received those days as credit — the sentence would have been 60 days.

Boostrom was also charged with theft of $5,000 or under for an incident that occurred on December 2nd, 2022, in Vancouver, which he pled guilty to.

He was sentenced to jail time served and two years probation.

On May 31st, 2020, in Charlie Lake, Boostrom was charged with possession of stolen property over $5,000, identity theft, resisting arrest and 26 counts of possessing another person’s identity documents.

McLaughlin says he pled guilty to possessing stolen property, identity theft and resisting arrest counts on November 7th, 2023. He was sentenced to jail time served and given two years probation. He received credit for 60 days in custody.

McLaughlin says the remaining 26 counts were related to individual pieces of identification pertaining to the identity theft charge and were stayed after the sentencing hearing.

According to the Canadian Legal Information Institute, a stay is when a proceeding is stopped or put on hold and may be permanent or temporary.

Also, in May 2020, in Fort St. John, Boostrom was charged with impaired driving, two counts of obstructing a peace officer and two counts of personation.

On November 7th, 2023, he pled guilty to the impaired driving and personation charges. He was fined $1,000, prohibited from driving for one year and sentenced to jail time served and two years probation.

McLaughlin says the charges of obstructing a peace officer were stayed at the hearing.